File:Motion in the Crab Nebula (09-2005 to 11-2005).gif
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[edit]DescriptionMotion in the Crab Nebula (09-2005 to 11-2005).gif |
English: This time-lapse movie of the Crab Nebula, made from NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations, reveals wave-like structures expanding outward from the "heart" of an exploded star. The waves look like ripples in a pond.
The heart is the crushed core of the exploded star, or supernova. Called a neutron star, it has about the same mass as the sun but is squeezed into an ultra-dense sphere that is only a few miles across and 100 billion times stronger than steel. This surviving relic is a tremendous dynamo, spinning 30 times a second. The rapidly spinning neutron star is visible in the image as the bright object just below center. The bright object to the left of the neutron star is a foreground or background star. The movie is assembled from 10 Hubble exposures taken between September and November 2005 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. |
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between September 2005 and November 2005 date QS:P,+2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+2005-09-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+2005-11-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
Source | http://hubblesite.org/video/899/news/104-annotated |
Author | NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State University) |
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